A Most Violent Year (2014)

During the violent 1980s, Oscar Isaac runs a New York heating oil company that he inherited from his corrupt father-in-law, fighting pressures from multiple fronts: his trucks are being robbed regularly, he’s struggling to complete a time-sensitive deal to buy a new property, and the District Attorney’s office is breathing down his neck on potential charges of price fixing, tax evasion, and other illegalities. Isaac plays a believably tortured hero against a cast that is almost universally less heroic and much more ruthless, including wife Jessica Chastain. It’s weirdly a very competent film, but also mostly forgotten by the time the credits roll.